2007 EPA Methane to Markets Cooperative Agreement Awards

These awards were made in response to a USEPA Request for Proposals issued in December 2006. These selected proposals support the core activities of the Methane to Markets Partnership and support the sector-specific action plans developed by the Partnership. Click on the individual grant title for more details about the grant. The sites linked from this page are not on the EPA Web site.

Applicant	Title	Sector	Country	Award Amount
China Biogas Society	Workshop on biogas technological, policy and institutional innovations	Agriculture	China	$55,000
Michigan State University	Building a M2M Agricultural Sector Research Network (MARN) in China	Agriculture	China	$43,757
Chinese Ministry of Agriculture (MAGC)	Capacity Building for the Promotion of Rural Renewable Energy Development in China	Agriculture	China	$150,000
Colombia’s Centro Nacional de Produccion Mas Limpia y Tecnologias ambientales (CNPMLTA)	Methane capture from agricultural wastes	Agriculture	Colombia	$64,350
The India Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)	Regional workshop on "technologies and policies for control of methane emission from animal wastes"	Agriculture	India	$100,000
International Institute for Energy Conservation (IIEC)	Productive Use of methane in the Indian Dairy Industry — An Indian AgStar Mechanism	Agriculture	India	$99,000
Mexico's SEMARNAT	Actions for replication of biodigester systems in the Lerma-Chapala Region	Agriculture	Mexico	$180,000
Ministry of Natural Resource and Environment, Department of Environment	Sustainable Recovery of livestock waste to reduce methane gas emission in agricultural sector of Viet Nam	Agriculture	Vietnam	$75,000
CCII	Demonstration of power generation using low quality coal mine methane, emission monitoring & engine perf. Analysis	Coal	China	$100,000
Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO)	A feasibility study on mitigating and utilizing diluted mine methane by using a monolithic catalytic combustor at Tiefa	Coal	China	$200,102
Guizhou International Cooperation Center for Environmental Protection	Coal Mine Methane (CMM) Recovery and Utilization Initiative in Guizhou Province, China	Coal	China	$63,503
Southern Illinois University	Quantification of Ventilation Air Methane Emission From Three Gassy Underground Coal Mines in India	Coal	India	$77,000
Centre for People and Environment	Pre-feasibility Study on Electricity Generation Utilizing coal Mine Methane from Nigerian Coal Mines	Coal	Nigeria	$80,000
FICCI	Facilitating Mechanisms for Advancing Methane Recovery and Use Projects in India	Cross-sector	India	$150,106
RUSDEM-EE	Clean Energy Technology Information Center	Cross-sector	Russia	$150,000
Argentina Solid Waste Association (ARS) (in IGMS as ‘APEEDLRS’ — Asociacion Para El Estudio de los Residuous)	Small Scale Direct Utilization of Landfill Gas to Fulfill On-Site Energy Needs	Landfill	Argentina	$125,000
ICLEI	Local Methane Partnership for Emissions Reduction at Municipal Landfills in Brazil (originally was Brazil and India)	Landfill	Brazil	$140,000
California State University Fullerton Foundation	Energy Recovery and Emission Reduction of Landfill Gas in China	Landfill	China	$95,000
Colombia's Centro Nacional de Produccion Mas Limpia y Tecnologias ambientales (CNPMLTA)	Identifying potential sites and conducting pre-feasibility studies at medium-sized landfills for methane capture and usage	Landfill	Colombia	$102,450
Texas A&M Research Foundation	Pre-Feasibly Study for Converting Landfill Gas to Liquefied Natural Gas for Fueling Refuse Trucks and Buses in India	Landfill	India	$100,000
Korea District Heating Corporation (KDHC)	Feasibility Assessment for Methane recovery and utilization at four Korean Landfills	Landfill	Korea	$80,000
Border Environment Cooperation Commission	Landfill gas and recovery at three communities in Northern Mexico	Landfill	Mexico	$190,000
CIFAL Atlanta	Best Practices in Landfill Gas-to-Energy Projects: Improving Local Government Financial Performance by Protecting the Environment	Landfill	Multiple	$175,000
ISWA	Landfill Inventory for Nigeria	Landfill	Nigeria	$35,000
NP Ecological Resource Centre	Landfill Inventory for Russia	Landfill	Russia	$35,000
Renewable Energy Agency (REA)	Infrared Heater Technology Utilizing Landfill Gas in the Ukraine	Landfill	Ukraine	$175,000
University of Louisiana at Lafayette	Extension of the Process Optimization Review to Include Methane to Markets Partners	Oil and Gas	Brazil	$225,000

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